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The First Awcrku Flag Over Rich eased.Ely our correspondence from Richmond we havoreoilftd *och Bowt'scoounlaof ayoung New-Yorker,that even at th!a isle data we oanaot refrain'rom potlblng him. Lieut- JosKitO* L. Da Petitil, of Tirol!, Dutche** County, Aid»de*e*rop to Gen, Aaap-ht, (Chief of Blaff to MsJopGeoeral Wutiii.) formerly Military Governor of New-Or I eaa*. subsequently of Norfolk, and more recently of Rich* mom), rafted ibe first real American flag, or ensign, over the Capitol of the rebel Confederate Capital,with the assistance of Cgpt Lanoaon, Chief of Artillery to Gen. Wjuismu Two cavalry guidom had been previously placed (be re, hut it eliould be remembered that a email flax attached to a etaff could be planted while the hat* yards were In process of adjustment and attachment to ralae a •* real flee. All honor to the officers who placed the guidons there j but at a matter of blatorto fact and Inicreit, they who relied the drat real Americas Bni over Rich mood, the central point of flUv-rry, btiould be remembered In Uieaanata of thie war emphatically for freedom. The flag railed wee the flag of the Twelfth Maine Volunteer!, originally com mao tied by Gen. SHirier, which waved In triumph over the headquarter» of Gene. Bouse and feHii'iai at New Orleans, and waa sent forward Into Ricnmond. stripped to Lieut. Da Paraeaa’s saddle, to order that It might have the hiatonc glory of being the first to wave over a cite preeminently tea stronghold aid seat of life of the rebellion.
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Thu, Apr 27, 1865
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